Background
Button was the only son of John Button of Buckland in Hampshire and his first wife Eleanor South, daughter of Thomas South of South Baddesley.
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John Button
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Career
He entered Inner Temple in 1641. He was made freeman of Lymington in 1646 and was a commissioner for militia in 1648. He was re-elected Member of Parliament for Lymington in 1660 for the Convention Parliament.
In 1665 he succeeded his father to the estate of Buckland.
He was a commissioner for assessment for Hampshire from 1677 and was a captain of the militia by 1679. In 1679 he was returned as Member of Parliament for Lymington in the two elections but died before the second parliament metropolitan
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In 1659, he was elected Member of Parliament for Lymington in the Third Protectorate Parliament.
